Last Friday, Internet Australia (https://www.internet.org.au/about) appeared at the NBN Senate Committee. In the past Internet Australia has called for fast, ubiquitous broadband without publicly favouring a technological solution. Based on new fibre costings and backed by a survey of its [...]

#MyBroadbandvReality Super sized Survey results

Thank you to everyone who participated in our survey, we truly appreciate all 1114 of you making the effort. The second survey saw no discernible difference in the results from the first survey. There remains a gap between the broadband estimate and reality and we learned the internet is largely used [...]

#MyBroadbandvReality Super Sized SURVEY

Sadly, the internet is too often presented in media as a 'luxury' instead of the 'utility' that it really is - it is akin to inferring that a bathroom inside your home is a 'luxury'?! If we were to be told all of a sudden that some of our houses could have inside bathrooms, others could have thunde [...]

Help us help you! #MyBroadbandvReality Super Sized

We need your help. This is a larger survey than what we did prior to the #MyBroadbandvReality submission to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network as obviously the Government does not comprehend how imperative fast stable internet connections are for Australians currently and [...]

#‎MyBroadbandvReality Achievement Unlocked ;-)

Pretty cool win in the last few days. Our social media crowd-sourced submission to the Senate Select Committee on the NBN, actually got mentioned in the Senate hearings on the 12th of March, to Mr Ziggy Switkowski himself. If you wanted to have a look at all the data then you should see "MyBroadband [...]

MyBroadband vs Reality - the States / Territories

A quick companion post for the MyBroadband Senate Select committee submission on the National Broadband Network by the #MyBroadbandvReality team. In numbers:
Over 800 Submissions
7 days to do it in
4 main editors
3 time zones
2 continents
1 submission

My Broadband vs Reality

Mr Broadband, Malcolm Turnbull the Federal Member for Wentworth and our esteemed Minister for Communications has a pretty new site for Broadband speeds and I am not so sure the data he is working off is even within cooee of the reality that most of us punters actually get?

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